Working in digital media – Ian Cudmore
Ian works in chutney movies
Ian has got a degree in the National College and Art and Design
after that he did a Masters degree in Music Media Technology in Trinity College he did this so he could get into the music industry
He kinda strayed from the music industry and went more into the video editing.
After college he did an internship at ONE PRODUCTIONS (which was really small and closed) and he then made Ring Tones for mobile phones for a while.
He like to do video editing and he made a documentary about a scottish singer and send it over to him thinking nothing of it but the singer liked it.He then asked him to do an Electronic Press Kit they send these out to radio stations when a new album or single is released then DJ gets an idea about the singer. its like an biography with info about what you need to know and why he did/wrote what he did/wrote
He also did a EPK for Lisa Hannigan, He then got in touch with Liam McGrath who is an director that worked PJ Gallagher in Naked Camera and who also made the documentaries and a whole loads more. they asked him to be the editor for Maeve Higgins show, Fancy Littles.
On fancy littles he did also did a stop motion which took him 12 hours(ugh) to do and used Final Cut to do the editing Assistant Editor who basically gets all the materials organised so the editor can just focus on the editing.
He said that there are 3 types of editors involved usually in making a movie:
Assembly Editor who looks through alot of footage and says which stuff should focus on and what not to focus on.
Editor who edits all the footage
Assistant Editor who filters everything and names everything and sorts everything out so the editor can edited it more easily.
another good thing to remember maybe is that he said that he usually had a 20:1 of filming so he maybe had like 20 minutes of video but only used 1 minute (i think it might be exaggerated but it certainly true that you “tape” allot more then that you use)
He worked in RTE as-well had a good time editing while he was down there and looking through the archive and looking at the old RTÉ programs and then putting them into a project he was doing. he usually had to make an 30 min edit. he usually would get around 28 mins of what he thought was good and useful and according to him him what might be the most scary person in the entertainment business would have a look, the Commissioning Editor and he told him that there had to be 4 minutes shaved off the whole thing.
ATM he is working on a project for RTÉ’s website program, Storyline. He is doing a Fake-Documentary some guy called XL who wants to become a Music Producer and a Free-Running pro. the name of the show is called “We Own The Streets” and the next episode is suppose come out 15th of March. He showed us a bit of it and it was very funny
The tip he left us with was Don’t put all you eggs in one basket cause he used to do that and would get disappointed which really is a good tip
